NY hospital implements biometric technology to identify patients

Modality: Palm vein (News-Medical.net)

The advanced technology of PatientSecure helps to ensure each patient is correctly "linked" to the right medical record, a task which is not always as straightforward as it sounds. For example, at the medical center alone, two or more patients share the same first and last names more than 125,000 times.

A real tipping point for this industry will be when adopters of biometric ID management solutions begin wringing price reductions out of their insurance companies. Does cutting off the wrong person's leg cost more than a biometric ID system?